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Books > Sport & Leisure > Humour > Cartoons & comic strips
WE WANT Comics by Jashorn is a book that bring irreverent humour to
readers: ranging from the sweetest and wittiest scenarios to the
darkest humour that they will likely never forget. These books
explore current affairs, social life, animals and one's existence
as a human being (yes, you're one of them). Featuring over 200
comics in each volume, the books are packed with humour, visual
anecdotes, and dark situations. Readers will laugh, over, and over
again. Jashorn greatly admires the work of Gary Larson, creator of
The Far Side comics.
'The crabby little girls of today are the crabby old women of
tomorrow!' Entrepreneur, psychiatrist, fussbudget - Lucy van Pelt
is the much-loved crabby heroine of the Peanuts gang. Never one to
suffer in silence, in this brand new book she is presented as the
role model she has always wanted to be. Packed with tips on how to
stick up for yourself, how to make yourself heard, how to stand up
for what you believe in and much more besides, How to be a Grrrl is
Lucy's guide to making the most of being a girl.
Since 2010, Martin Rowson has been documenting the highs and lows -
mainly the lows - of the Tory-Lib Dem coalition week after week in
The Guardian, as well as in The Morning Star, Tribune and many
other publications. This book collects Rowson's best, most brutally
funny, cartoons from a period that began with a "big, open,
comprehensive offer" to Nick Clegg, continued on through riots,
phone-hacking, double-dip recession, and endless debates on Europe,
and will end (perhaps) with the general election in 2015.
Accompanied by witty explanatory text, The Coalition Book takes a
biting satirical look at Cameron and Clegg's first - and perhaps
last - five years in charge. The book contains a foreword by Will
Self.
Marvel Comics artist Scott Koblish (Deadpool, Spider-Man) has been
illustrating his own demise for many years in morbidly funny,
4-panel black-and-white comics. He's the one person struck by a
comet, suddenly overrun by a pack of baboons, resting under the
precarious rock tipped by a single bird, or the target of his
daughter's (of course homicidal) teddy bear come to life. Though
it's always Scott on the receiving end, the comics perfectly
capture that irrational feeling we all have that everything can go
very wrong in one irrevocable instant. Slapstick, surreal, and
eerily plausible, with extended scenarios and pops of color
throughout, this collection of cosmic reckonings shows that, if the
end is nigh, at least you'll die laughing.
"Buffett has generously endowed us all with a sensible and
intelligent roadmap for investing."
--Robert G Hagstrom
"Warren Buffett - The Oracle of Everything. He has been right
about the stock market, rotten accounting, CEO greed, and corporate
governance. The rest of us are just catching on."
"--Fortune"
"Warren Buffett has turned value investing into an art form,
piling up the world's second largest individual fortune and
persuading millions to mimic the low-tech, buy-and-hold style of
stock picking he practices at Berkshire Hathaway."
"--Time"
"Buffett and Munger are, without doubt, two of the greatest
investors and capital allocators of all time, so investors would be
well served to study their thinking carefully."
"--The Motley Fool"
"Warren Buffett - Ace stockpicker, and now, an
empire-builder."
"--BusinessWeek"
"But I Really Wanted to Be an Anthropologist" is an introduction to
the world of Margaux, a charming 30-something living in Paris,
navigating the world as an illustrator. This diary documents her
day-to-day existence with her boyfriend and young daughter,
drinking and smoking, and the difficulties of a persistent and
precocious child. Anyone who's ever worn inappropriate shoes to the
supermarket or danced around the house in their underwear will be
charmed by Motin's irreverent humor.
Praise for "But I Really Wanted to Be an Anthropologist"
"A great choice for a beach read--or a guilty pleasure."
--"Publishers Weekly"
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